Hi Terri, as far as i know a song was dropped from the proms, I do believe if people settle here they should be prepared to accept our laws and cusums as indeed if i settled in Germany I would abide by there laws.

William,
why was this song dropped - was it too British? If we go to the UK we don't expect to find German conditions, but we want to know how the British live, what they think etc. I always very much enjoyed the Proms on German TV, because it showed a picture of the British that was so different from what we read in books. It showed enthusiastic British proud of their country (something we are still partly lacking).

The song was dropped Terri in case it offended other nationalities. Some years back, some councils and do-gooders trieto ban the word christmas, to be replaced by festive season or such like.

Teri
its not just the songs,try asking for a black pudding !!!
they now call them Bury puddings here where I live.
It is called political correctness, as dished out by our nanny state.
Sad thing is we actually do !

Tomorrow I am going to see and hear the Halle orchestra at the lowery theatre playing christmas carol`s how good is that ? !!!!

Mac, I suppose they will also sing German Christmas songs. Have a pleasant time and think of me!

At school we learnt a lot of German Christmas songs that have been adopted by other countries and translated, like o come all yee faithful, or silent night,
but we still have others like Oh du fr?hliche, oh du selige Weihnachtszeit, or Oh Tannenbaum, or Kling Gl?ckchen klingelingeling, Vom Himmel hoch etc. etc. etc.
There are such a lot of Christmas songs sung in Germany. The most popular English ones are White Christmas and Jingle Bell.